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A Perfect Sonnet

This version of A Perfect Sonnet was released by Bright Eyes in 1999.

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Lately I’ve been wishing I had one desire
Something that would make me never want another
Something that would make it so that nothing mattered
All would be clear then
But I guess I’ll have to settle for a few brief moments
And watch it all dissolve into a single second
And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet
Or one foolish line
‘Cause that’s all that you’ll get so you’ll have to accept
You are here then you’re gone
But I believe that lovers should be tied together and
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather
And left there to drown
Left there to drown in their innocence
But as for me I’m coming to the final chapter
I read all of the pages and there is still no answer
Only all that was before I know must soon come after
That is the only way it can be
So I stand in the sun
And I breathe with my lungs
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth
Saying everything you’ve ever seen was just a mirror
And you’ve spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever
And now you are laying in a bathtub full of freezing water
Wishing you were a ghost
But once you knew a girl and you named her Lover
And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer
But autumn came, She disappeared
You can’t remember where she said she was going to
But you know that she’s gone ’cause she left you a song
That you don’t want to sing
We’re singing I believe that lovers should be chained together
And thrown into a fire with their songs and letters
And left there to burn
Left there to burn in their arrogance
But as for me I’m coming to my final failure
I’ve killed myself with changes trying to make things better
But I ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers
And layed entwined together on a bed of clover
And left there to sleep
Left there to dream of their happiness

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Bright Eyes has released many songs over the years besides A Perfect Sonnet. Bright Eyes released songs from 1998 to 2007 spanning across albums like A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off The Happiness, Every Day And Every Night, Fevers And Mirrors, Don't Be Frightened Of Turning The Page, There Is No Beginning To The Story, A Christmas Album, Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground, One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels (Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova), Lua, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005), Four Winds, and Cassadaga. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bright Eyes.

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